Short Answer - No.Slightly Longer Answer - No but really and truly there is very little reason to do anything other than unicode for a database these days - excepting perhaps if you live or work with some of the native multi-byte character sets that have slightly unusual encodings (HK chinese from memory for example).
Niall On 6 Jan 2010 14:44, Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All of our databases were created with character set WE8ISO8859P1. It now appears that we must create a new database specifying AL32UTF8 on the create database command.
Is there a problem of having multiple databases on the same Windows X64 server with different charactersets?
Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113